External prospective review of the Geneva Technical Hub (GTH)

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) established the Geneva Technical Hub (GTH) in April 2021. The GTH aims to enhance UNHCR’s response in areas such as Preparedness, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Energy & Environment, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Shelter & Settlement, Site planning, and Protection. The SDC’s support to the GTH aims to achieve specific outcomes as defined in the project log frame for greening humanitarian aid. The outcomes are to establish and operationalize the GTH, develop technical tools and guidance followed by UNHCR’s field operations, enhance the technical capacity of UNHCR staff in the field through GTH’s assistance, and proposing and implementing innovative and context-specific technical solutions to complex challenges in Energy & Environment, Preparedness and DRR, WASH, Shelter & Settlement, site planning, and protection in UNHCR’s field operations. The evaluation tools included a document review, semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and SWOT analysis, case studies and/or outcome harvesting, and a final workshop in Geneva.